Press Release

Four Latin American Artists

Nov 20 - Dec 24, 1998

During November and December, the George Adams Gallery is exhibiting works by Latin American artists Azaceta, Bedia, Palazyan and Roche. The exhibition includes large and small-scale paintings, sculpture, and an installation.

Luis Cruz Azaceta is represented by signature paintings from 1986, all self-portraits, and all dealing with human suffering. Time Man depicts the artist, head severed from his torso, holding a large clock. In Abandoned, the artist appears alone cowering in the landscape. Finally, in AIDS Count II, a painting from his series on AIDS, the artist paints himself surrounded by number (as reference to statistics of AIDS-related deaths).

Jose Bedia's works include two new large-scale canvases, Su Madriguera (His Lair) and Paisaje con cazadores que recuerda a otro (Landscape with Hunters Remembering Each Other) as well as a wall-mounted sculpture, El lugar que se ocupará (The Place that He will Occupy). All three works deal with aspects of the relationship between humans and animals.

Rosana Palyzan, who had her New York debut exhibition at the gallery last May, will be represented by a new installation, Pinball Arcade which features three toy games incorporating illustrated stories of brutal sex crimes committed against children. The juxtaposition of the games with the narrative of the crimes, simply rendered in colored pencil, makes these stories all the more horrific.

Arnaldo Roche is represented by three paintings, one a classic self-portrait from 1990 titled Blind Dreams and a nearly abstract painting of a bell tied up in ropes,One Witness Should be Enough, from 1996. There is also an oil on paper from 1989.